Effects of Extrusion and Irradiation on the Mechanical Properties of a Water-Collagen Solution.

This article describes 1D extension tests on bovine collagen samples (8% collagen in water). At such a high collagen concentration, the mechanical properties of semi-solid samples can be approximated by hyperelastic models (two-parametric HGO and Misof models were used), or simply by Hooke's law and the modulus of elasticity E. The experiments confirm a significant increase in the E-modulus of the samples irradiated with high-energy electrons.